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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1968
6 Aggiornamento’ Won’t Alter Teaching : Pope
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AMERICAN actor Rod Steiger examines a copy of Pope John XXHI’s book, “Journal of a Soul,” which is the
basis for a new motion picture called “And There Came a Man.” Mr. Steiger plays the role of “Intermediary” in
the film which covers die pontiffs life from 14 to 81. Newsreel footage has been combined with additional
material made on location in Rome, Venice, Paris and Istanbul. In each city local townspeople supplemented the
cast of professionals.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has denied that the
“aggiornamento” or updating of Catholic teaching called for by Pope
John XXIII sought to alter the ‘-‘very -content, of The. traditional
teaching” of the Church.
During a general audience Pope
Paul commented on the modem
hostility to concepts of immu
table truth. The modern men
tality and the scientific outlook
“tell you that truth is not static,
that it is not final nor certain.”
This attitude prevails so much
so these days, the Pope con
tinued, that “education is today
defined as a search for truth
rather than the possession and
conquest of tmth. Instead, every
thing changes, everything progre
sses, everthing becomes trans
formed.
“HUMAN THOUGHT is mark
ed by movement, by its historical
process, by the so-called histor-
icism set up as a system which
makes of time the generator as
well as the devourer of truths
which are gradually taught by
education.”
Pope Paul said that this ap
proach has invaded the field of
religion. Some persons want a
“radical revision, attempting to
rid it of those dogmas which
seem obsolete and overtaken by
scientific progress or which are
incomprehensible to modem
thought,” he said.
To bring about this updating,
said the Pope, some try to make
it comprehensible “by changing
at first the formulas with which
the teaching Church has given it...
and then by altering the very
content of traditional teaching by
subjecting it to the dominant law
of transforming historicism.”
The Pope noted that this pro
cess has been defended by saying
that this was sanctioned by the
Second Vatican Council. But this
he denied.
“IT MAY BE said that the
council initiated and authorized
this treatment of traditional
teaching. Nothing is more false if
we harken back to the words of
Pope John, our venerated prede
cessor, and, if we may refer to
him as such, the inventor of that
‘aggiornamento’ in the name of
which many dare to inflict on
Catholic dogma dangerous and at
times foolhardy interpretations
and distortions.
“Pope John proclaimed in the
famous opening speech of the
Second Vatican Ecumenical
Council that the council was to
reaffirm the whole of Catholic
doctrine ‘without removing any
of its parts,’ while seeking the
best means and those most in
keeping with the maturity of
modern studies to give them a
new, more adequate and more
profound expression.”
The Pope concluded by saying:
“Faithfulness to the council ex
horts us to a new and wise study
of the truths of the faith while it
also leads us back to that univo
cal, perennial consoling testi
mony of Peter, whom Jesus made
His infallible voice within the
very bosom of the Church as the
guarantee of the stability of the
faith and as a challenge-as it
were-to the arbitrary and con
suming liability of time.”
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